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Page 6 THE BATTALION MONDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1981 Today's almanac United Press International Today is Monday, Nov. 16, the 320th day of 1981 with 45 to follow. Those born on this date are under the sign of Scorpio. Famed American composer W. C. Handy, known as the “Father of the Blues,” was born November 16, 1873. In 1953, former President Har ry Truman went on nationwide radio and television to deny charges by the U.S. Attorney General that he had appointed Harry Dexter White to high gov ernment office (Director of the In ternational Monetary Fund) knowing that White was a Russian spy. State Clements campaigns in bid for re-election United Press International AUSTIN — Gov. Bill Cle ments, who travels to San Anto nio, Houston and Dallas Monday to formally announce his bid for re-election, has said he will spend whatever it takes to wage a com petitive campaign. A recent story in a Dallas news paper reported Clements would spend $9.5 million to win the chief executive’s post. Clements has de nied this report, but declines to say how much he will spend. “I don t have a number in mind, Clements said. “I will spend whatever is necessary to be in a competitive race. The only announced Democra tic candidate, Sen. Peyton McKnight, D-Tyler, has said he can raise as much as $5 million in his bid to unseat Clements. Clements’ Monday news con ferences start a three-day tour of re-election bid announcements all over Texas. Tuesday Clements is scheduled to visit Fort Worth, Amarillo, Lubbock, El Paso and Odessa. He will travel Wednes day to Texarkana, Tyler, Waco, Corpus Christi and Harlingen. McKnight already has leveled criticism at Clements, which the governor answered at a news con ference Friday. Although he did not specifically name McKnight, Clements said he should not be criticized for refusing to give testi mony in a federal lawsuit regard ing congressional redistricting. “We all feel this is a precedent we must not allow to be estab lished,’’ Clements said. He said the governor, as chief executive, is named in many law suits and if he gave testimony in one, he would have to submit to giving a deposition in every single “Every two-bit lawyer in the state of Texas would be asking for my testimony,” Clements said. New drug will help babies undergoing heart surgery United Press International BALTIMORE — A newly approved drug dramatically im proves the survival chances of babies undergoing surgery for se rious heart defects, a University of Maryland researcher says. Dr. Anthony L. Moulton, a pediatric surgeon at University Hospital, said Friday the new drug — prostaglandin — helps to open blood vessels to the lower part of a baby’s body and flush out toxic wastes that often kill infants before they can be operated on. Prostaglandin, a synthetic drug patterned after a protein subst ance that occurs naturally in the human body, was recently approved by the federal Food and Drug Administration. The drug has proven to be a blessing to doctors trying to oper ate on babies with narrowed aor tas, a condition restricting blood flow to the lower half of the body. Moulton said before surgery pros taglandin is used to temporarily open the ductus arterioris, a blood vessel that normally closes within MSC ARTS presents DAVID GRIMES CLASSICAL GUITARIST Workshop Concert Rudder Theatre 1-5 p.m. 8 p.m. Tickets & Information MSC Box office 845-1234 hours after a baby’s birth. The open vessel significantly improves urinary output and re moves the toxins that often weaken babies to the point they can not withstand surgery to widen the aorta, Moulton said. “When we go to the operating room the baby is in much better shape,” he said. Moulton said of 11 infants tre ated with prostaglandin only one died during surgery. In addition, he reported no serious side effects. Doctors looking at interferon as cancer fighter United Press International HOUSTON — A cancer re searcher trying to unravel the mysteries of the anti-viral drug interferon, which tests have shown to be an effective tumor shrinking agent, called the early results “remarkable and mira culous.” Scientists from three major cancer research centers — Memorial Sloan-Kettering Can cer Center in New York, the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute in Houston and the Stanford University School of Medicine in Palo Alto, Calif. — agreed the drug may be the key *x> defeating cancer. “The ways we use this subst ance are very simplistic and crude. What has been done so far is remarkable and miracu lous,” Mathilde Krim of Sloan- Kettering said Friday. “There are many dreams that can be realized from interfer on,” she said. “I think interfer on has great promise and clear ly, within 20 years from now, it will be a part of medical know ledge.” Although interferon re search, primarily laboratory work over the past few years, is in its infant stages. Dr. Jordan Gutterman reported human ex periments have shown promise. Gutterman, a professor of medicine at M.D. Anderson, said about 75 cancer patients have received synthetic and natural interferon treatment and in most cases the tumors were reduced. Side effects, including fever and other flu-like symptoms, forced two patients to be re moved from the experiment, he said. The side effects dis appeared once the patients stopped receiving the treat ment. There are about 50 types of varieties produced by the body and each produces different test results. “Scientists have found that different types of interferon seem to he more active on the cells it is produced by,’Gutter- man said. The anti-cancer properties of interferon, a protein that serves as a key element of the body’s complex defenses against dis ease, appears to differ from standard cancer drugs, promp ting speculation a two-pronged attack might be launched against cancer. Krim said it is almost puz zling why nature put all these different types of molecules in the body. “If it was unnecessary, nature would have done away with it through evolution,” she said. “It is a mystery.” Residents fear mine water is possible health hazard United Press International COMMERCE, Okla. — The zinc and lead mining operations pulled out of the Tar Creek area in the 1960s but left a legacy of pollu tion. Two congressman say the area, where acid-tainted water bubbles out the ground, is the na tion’s worst environmental hazard. Reps. Mike Synar, D-Okla., and Bob Whittaker, R-Kan., Fri day toured the 40-square-mile creek basin, which includes north east Oklahoma and southeast Kan sas. Some residents fear the foul smelling, red-colored stream that meanders through abandoned mines is a threat to their water supply. Others fear cave-ins. Synar and Whitaker were gathering information and support for placing the Tar Creek area high on the list for the EPA s “super fund cleanup” program. They said it was labeled the nation’s most hazardous waste site by an inde pendent study conducted for a House oversight subcommittee of the Energy and Commerce Com mittee. Bill Librizzi, of the Environ mental Protection Agency’s Dallas regional office, said after the tour it will be at least two years before the government can begin clean ing the area. He said it would re quire funding and planning. A study commissioned by for mer Gov. David Hall, who served from 1971 to 1975, said it would take as much as $20 million and 30 years to clean up the area David Richard, who grew up in the mining area, said miningcom- panics just "bled this whole land. “They didn’t give a damn, lie said. “All they cared about was tk minerals and the money. It'sjusti big cesspool now.” The tour started on the farraii George Mayer, who had to movt his Arabian horse because wale gurgling up in his pasture w causing deep red sores on animal’s legs. Clear water gurgles from a in the ground on the north edged town. After an hour it turns red and flows sluggishly tl Mayer’s pasture, killing all vegeta tion in its path. 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